Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-10

| sell IN PRINT as Mrs. Smith, instead Of
mrs. Representative Smith ~ was asked.
"On, yes, certainly, il all the rest APP
pear in the same way. shouldn't like
TO be alone. 1t would be onspicuous, or
ratner it wouldn't mean anything, there
are so many Smiths. you know. But,
really, think. the newspapers can do a
great deal. They follow the lead of So
ciety."
"On the contrary, society follows the
lead or the newspapers" said another
talker. Yes, in nine cases out OF ten,
society Is led by the papers, and to a
large degree is influenced by the press.
But this question of titles is to be set
tied by ourselves, | think. For my part,
| confess they are already very mixed.
If they were limited TO the higher officials,
and included only the Cabinet, court,
Congress, army and navy, they would be
worth having. | prefer to be plain, I'M
known Mrs, rather than he among a lot
of lower-class titles"
"Oh, of course; but there are so many
Representatives, and they have TO stay
long time in Congress TO be known, if
known at all. 1t is very veXiug either
way one looks at it. am sure don't
want to be nobody in Washington, and l
am also rather disguised with the excess
OF official titles. How many women are
there here who would be known in So
clety if not known as the wives of
officials?"
sob, there are mighty few. 1t isn't
their fault, but the faulty social system.
And what can we do about it? Ii we
try to ignore the one means of identity in
the use OF our husbands official positions,
why, then, one Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Brown,
Mrs. Black and Mrs. Green are just like
all others of similar names. l wlshthere
could be some way out OF it, so every
woman would be proud and content to be
known as plain Mrs, however common
her husbands name, but at the rate we
are going on we shall in another year see
ourselves with Mrs. Superintendent
This and Mrs. Postal Clerk That. 1t is
not much worse, and il is not, after all,
a thing to hesitate over. We know bet
ter than to say Mrs. Senator and Mrs.
Secretary. Now, why do we do itF"
why, indeed. Ia there not the lurking
pride In the American woman's love Of
titles at the bottom of Itf The Senator's
wife desires to be known as the wife of a
Senator. 1t is a pardonable pride, and she
deserves 1t il she has helped to make him
a Senator, but she does not stIpulate the
phraseology when she is put in print. She
only stipulates the printing of the fact la
her own drawing-rOom she talks OF Mrs.
Justice and Mrs. General, presenting one
title TO another, but she cannot abide the
same incorrectness in the newspapers.
Now and then there has been feeble pro-
test, in the wall of a single voice or
scratch of solitary pen, but they
availed nOught in the haste of social life
and the rushing business of news. But
IL the newspapers reform in this regard,
it's by no means certain that society will
give up the absurd and fast becoming
vulgar fashion or custom or whatever
one may term the wholesale use OF official
titles.
The matrimonialIv eligible foreign
Ministers at Washington just at this
time are being looked at by official So
cIety. Who is the one among the number
of bachelors and widOwers whose heart
and hand have recently been offered to
and accepted by q beauty and belle, an
American girl? The Danish Minister is
called the handsomest foreign Minister It
this post. So, at least, II was affirmed,
the Princess of Wales distinguished him
when he was in London. Mr.. De Lover
norm is a young widower, but he has been
absent for some time on visit to Deu-
mark. The Spanish. Swiss and French
Ministers are all widowers, but it is not
| thought either one Of the three has given
ground for such suspicion by devotion to
anV beauty and belle in society. The
| Netherlands Minister is bachelor, but
| cares 100 much for books and for himself
| to care for a beauty and belle. Alto
| gether, the curious are quite at sea,
| though the rumor in the Lenten quiet has
made grateful little ripple, and some
| thing to talk or
| AS there can be nothing at all going on
during holy week, more various mid gay
| etIes have marked this week, but u0tin the
least providing it. There have been din
| ners, of course, two or three musicales,
the "Bible talks" by Mrs. Bottome, of
New York, and second paper hunt"
| originated by Mr.. Greger, OF The Russian
| Legation. Mr.. Greger is without doubt
| the rich young man OF the diplomatic
CORPS He is the only young Foreign
| Secretary who keeps his own horses, his
coachman and droschky. He is the only
one of them who need not count the cost
or economic, having recently, on the
death OF his father, become heir to large
I business interests in Russia. He is
| clever. and now that he is rich, he is
quite envied by oIher young diplomats
deoendent' on small salaries and also
much less clever than Mr.. Greger. To be
Young, we'll favored in good looks, clever,
and rich is TO possess more than the av-
erage blessings of fortune, and more than
often tall to tAe lot Of one man. so say
The other young legation men when they
look at Mr.. Alexander Greger.
Mrs. Whitney gave the last OF several
Thursday evening musicales this week.
| Herr Scnott, the German tenor, contribut-
ing greatly to the enjoyment OF the
| guests, The next social event in this
| hospItable house will be the christening
marty on Easter Monday, when tue
.sCabinet Baby" will be named Dorothy
| Whitney.
Senator and Mrs. Dolph gave young
peoples party on Tuesday evening, at
| which those without scruples danced.
The recently arrived Minister from
| Austria, Baron Won Taverak, is bach
elor, who speaks English fluently and is
| musical.
Mrs. Folsom has returned from Miohl
gan, and Is again at home at Oak View
| The house has been closed much OF the
time in her absence, the one week when
the President and Mrs. Cleveland occu-
pied in making the brief interval. Visit
ors driving out, hoping to see the Presi
dents house, found II solitary, ana SIN
gle guard in the person OF an old mar
servant pacing the piazza. 1t Is SAID th'
March winds PLAYED around 1t, wltnou
mercy, and it proved it's claims to be 1
real summer house after the winter wa
supposed TO be well over.
Ghosts at ked Top.